On Capitol Hill, Sessions faces a racially-motivated, political lynch mob

FILE - In this Nov. 29, 2016, file photo, Attorney General nominee Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., is shown while meeting with Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Several NAACP members, led by their national president, staged a sit-in Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017, at the Alabama office of U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions to protest his nomination to be the nation's next attorney general. (AP Photo/Molly Riley, File)

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general is facing nothing short of a racially-motivated, political lynch mob on Capitol Hill.

Prior to his confirmation hearing, two men dressed in Ku Klux Klan robes shouting in Southern accents were removed from the hearing room.

“The immense powers of the attorney general combined with the deeply troubled views of this nominee is a call to conscience,” Booker wrote in a statement published by Politico.

The Congressional Black Caucus is leading the charge to destroy Sessions.

Rep. Andrew Carson, D-Ind.. told Think Progress that Sessions “stands by and makes disparaging remarks against people of color who raise their voices in protest.”

Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., accused the senator of having a “long legacy of insensitive, racially-charged comments against minorities.”

The NAACP went so far as to tweet that Sessions “supports an old, ugly history” when it comes to civil rights, the newspaper reported.

They went on to accuse the distinguished senator of having a troubled history of racial discrimination.

The NAACP and CBC smeared Sessions’ character without offering a shred of documented evidence that he’s a racist. But there is plenty of evidence to support the claims that he’s a defender of civil rights.

During his tenure as a U.S. attorney, he desegregated schools.

He also prosecuted the head of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan for murder. The Post reports that prosecution led to a multi-million dollar judgment that broke the back of the Klan.

But those facts do not fit the NAACP’s or the CBC’s hateful narrative.

Senator Sessions is a good and decent man – an Eagle Scout. He is a husband, a father and a grandfather. He’s a faithful member of the Methodist Church and a former Sunday school teacher.

And he deserves better than to be bullied just because he's a white Southern man named Jefferson Beauregard.

Judge a man by the content of his character -- that's what Martin Luther King said.

The Congressional Black Caucus and the NAACP should heed Dr. King’s words.